On 1/25/07, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
There are well over 8 million external links in enwiki
alone,
including well over a half million distinct domains via HTTP.
A greenlist is not a remotely sane solution because of this...
Sane solutions are, however, possible.
I was thinking the simplest (from a user perspective) solution would
be to designate any external link that had survived some given time
frame (e.g., a week) as a non-spam link, and thus to switch off
nofollow for it.
Obviously it wouldn't be perfect, but it might be close. Driveby
spamming would have no effect, but useful links added by Wikipedians
would, after a week, be considered real links.
I imagine this would be fairly difficult to implement though.
Steve